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Trying to feel better about what is wrong is the mental trap of addiction. To have things as they are not asks for the opposite consequence of our seeming wants to appear unwanted, unexpected, and having nothing to do with us. Addictive behaviors all attempt to prove we are victims - to our self - having created and then chronically deny the effects we cause.
Addiction is a mental problem.
What we insist on resisting will persist. Thinking we're not doing what we're doing creates a major inner conflict and emotional turmoil. Getting better at doing what is wrong is unhealthy, unnatural and dysfunctional.
Developing this practice fosters anxiety and stress since chronic conflict cannot be re-solved no matter how many ways we try to outthink it or think running "head-on” into compulsions can escape “it’s-grasp”. Chronic stress quickly becomes traumatic stress. Disorders are out of order, so acting out of order becomes the order of the day - and the reversal of our thinking is at the core.
Addiction’s base is the potential for thought to think that what is wrong is right and thus what is right is wrong amd that either or both of these twisted thought are right and thus real and true. Crossing this imaginary line into creating reality and truth is the source of ego and self centered thought attempting self-indignantly to fight for its right to a self that is wholly imagined. This is where the fictional stories of our imagined existence begin. There is nothing wrong with imagination or illusion until they are thought to be true do they become delusion. Any supposed life based on delusion is not afraid of death, since it has no life, but actual Life, fully realized and expressed.
Assuming addictive characteristics in thought presumed person-alities that are not who we are but something we can think we are as proof we are right. Thought is the primary action preceding all voluntary choices to express our “self”.
We cannot let go of what is essential since it is our essence. And will not let go of what we think or claim we are not doing. After all what is there to let go of if we’re not responsible for what we’re doing? The pressure caused by thinking what is happening is not happening, is depressing for good reason. Feeling guilt and shame are accurate consequences of this circular line of twisted reason amd ample evidence we are guilty for the shame we are creating - revealing we know more - and are more - than we think we are and know.
Reality existed well before the first human thought and delusions don’t exist no matter how hard we think. The dis-solution of obsessive thoughts is like any problem. Once a problem is seen accurately there is no conflict to overcome or compulsive need to try to prove wrong is right.
There is no stereotypical shape, color, size, or texture that can be attributed to predict addiction. Anyone can be impacted or affected by it. Many who are addicted don't think they are - especially since addiction is an addiction to thinking, and what we think of our-self - or ego. There is though one common hallmark shared by all types of addictive behaviors. It is an unwillingness to learn from experience.
Nobody is immune to what affects us all.
We are not here to treat addiction. We are here to dis-solve the delusion it is an incurable condition. If we can make it worse - we are better - acting as though we’re not.
We're here to talk about it so that you can better under and why it is happening and what you are doing to help enable it or solve it.